Re: [dev] Optimizing C compiler & c++ compiler/runtime

From: Sylvain BERTRAND <sylware_AT_legeek.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:47:34 +0100

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 06:12:45PM +0100, Paul Onyschuk wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:31:26 +0100
> Sylvain BERTRAND <sylware_AT_legeek.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Oh! What openbsd uses for its man page terminal renderer? I'm
> > stuck with the buggy heirloom tools.
> >
>
> Mandoc aka mdocml [1].

Thanks. I'll see how it compares to heirloom.

> >
> > ARM64 is on its way, which will require a backport in gcc 4.7.x.
> >
>
> We will see how it turns out. If AArch64 gets same treatment as ARM
> devices, I don't see myself using it: handful of outdated binary blobs
> just to get it half-working (no one cares about stability of ABI for
> kernel modules).

Do you mean that the GNU GPL is useless at opening even some blobs
required to make ARM platforms work properly?

> >
> > That's very bad. Linux kernel devs have not accepted patches to
> > allow compilation with alternative C compilers??
> >
>
> You can watch this presentation [2] or check LLVMLinux project
> directly [3]. It touches the topic in some way.

Sadly, llvm is not C-bootstrap-able which makes it a definitive
nono.
Received on Fri Dec 20 2013 - 18:47:34 CET